World’s highest Rly pier bridge nears completion

Manipur Gov AK Balla inspects pier bridge The world’s highest railway pier bridge being constructed over the Ijei River in Manipur’s Noney district is expected to be completed within the current financial year (2025-26). Railway engineers engaging...

Reimagining Commercial Underwriting in the Age of AI

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Putin’s Budapest Visit: Complex Flight Route Amid EU Sanctions and Diplomatic Challenges

Putin’s visit to Budapest demonstrates that geopolitical isolation is increasingly impacting the logistics of diplomacy. According to open sources, the Russian president’s aircraft is likely to be accompanied by Turkish and Russian fighters, and...

PREMIUM TIMES’ Business Editor selected for US govt’s programme on Trade, Development Finance

PREMIUM TIMES’ Business Editor, Oladeinde Olawoyin, has been selected for the 2025 International Visitors’ Leadership Program (IVLP) for professional leaders in Trade, Finance and Development. Mr Olawoyin was named alongside 21 other participants...

Prioritizing Infrastructure in EU Candidate Countries

The European Investment Bank’s development arm, EIB Global, said that it will focus on supporting strategic infrastructure projects in the EU candidate countries, including Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and...

Inflation in Albania stays below EU average

TIRANA, Oct. 17 — Consumer prices in Albania rose 2.3% in September, according to the EU-harmonised index published Friday. National data from INSTAT showed a similar 2.4% increase. Officials said the difference stems from how each method weighs...

Brazil declared completely free of H5N1

Brazil is now free of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in all species, according to a report from the World Organisation for Animal Health (WHOA). Brazil had only experienced on instance HPAI being confirmed in a commercial poultry...

Immigration agents have held more than 170 Americans against their will, ProPublica finds

When the Supreme Court recently allowed immigration agents in the Los Angeles area to take race into consideration during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned. “If the officers learn that the individual they...

North Macedonia receives grant from France for grid modernization

The EUR 600,000 grant is for technical assistance for the modernization and digitalization of the transmission grid in North Macedonia, MEPSO said. The project focuses on four areas: preparing system adequacy studies using the ANTARES market...

We found that more than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents. They’ve been kicked, dragged and detained for days

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Yes, ICE Is Arresting US Citizens

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Reporting Highlights Americans Detained: The government doesn’t track how many citizens are held by...

Šahmanović: Second submarine cable line with Italy to be installed by 2031

The two-day conference, titled Smart Growth, Green Future: Accelerating Investment in Montenegro, was opened yesterday in Luštica, near Tivat, by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister of Montenegro Milojko Spajić....

Report: West Africa Is Transshipment Node for Balkan Cocaine

The French Navy on September 22 seized nearly 10 tons of cocaine worth $610 million from an unflagged fishing vessel in the Gulf of Guinea. About three weeks earlier, the French Navy nabbed nearly six tons of cocaine worth almost $375 million in...

The Caribbean Corridor: How Cocaine, Global Mafias, and Digital Crime Converge on Island Shores

The surge in Colombian cocaine production, coupled with Venezuela’s prolonged political and economic crisis, has dramatically reinforced the Caribbean as a primary drug route for illicit substances, especially cocaine, destined for the United...

Albania gets first €99 million under growth plan

BRUSSELS, Oct. 17 — The European Commission has approved the first funding for Albania, Montenegro and North Macedonia under the EU Growth Plan for the Western Balkans, recognising progress on key reforms. Albania will receive €99.3 million in...

B&M is launching rare chocolate bar that’s ‘better’ than Cadbury’s version – but you’ll have to be quick

SWEET-TOOTHED shoppers are going crazy for a new rare chocolate bar which will be scanning at B&M – and punters say it’s better than Cadbury’s version. Revellers won’t have to wait long before they get their hands on the snack. Sign up for the...

High-ranking Balkan cartel leader who ‘tortured rival for 24 hours before murdering him’ is arrested on Costa del Sol after Europe-wide manhunt

A BALKAN mafia leader on the run from European authorities has been arrested on Costa del Sol after allegedly “torturing a rival for 24 hours” before executing him, authorities have said. The suspect, named by Montenegrin press as Kavac cartel...

Car and vehicle prices across Europe: How much is it in your country?

Comparing car prices across Europe is a complex challenge. Focusing on one or a few specific models might seem like a reasonable approach, but it can be misleading. Such comparisons fail to capture the broader market situation within each country,...

Von der Leyen: EU is guarantee that Serbian families will be warm in winter

In her speech during the visit to Serbia, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen didn’t address the looming energy crisis caused by the sanctions that the United States imposed on Russian-owned oil company NIS. Moreover, she demanded...

La Danza Apocalypsa Balkanica: Musician-Philosopher Boris Kovac on Spiritual Resistance

In this interview, musician-philosopher Boris Kovac speaks about Tito's Yugoslavia, Serbia today, the enduring Partizan Movement and also about Resistance today and the struggle for a multipolar, sovereign world. Boris Kovač, an honoured...